Safeconsole

Safeconsole is a utility for a safe by default rails console. Every session is wrapped in an Active Record transaction, preventing accidental mutations on production data.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'safeconsole'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Usage

Start Safeconsole session by running bin/rails safeconsole

Commands

The following commands are available in the Safeconsole session

• commit: Set the changes in the transaction to be committed to the database
• nevermind: Set the changes in the transaction to be discarded
• refresh: Start a new transaction, and discard or commit changes based on configuration
• stats: Display some stats on the current Safeconsole session
• commands: Print the Safeconsole commands in your session

Configuration

Safeconsole is configurable. You can configure it by adding an initializer at config/initializers/safeconsole.rb with the options outlined below

Example config, and options

# config/initializers/safeconsole.rb

Safeconsole.configure do |conf|
  # App Name
  # Name of the rails app, only for display purposes in the welcome message
  # Default: Attempt to infer application name
  conf.app_name = "My Amazing Product"

  # Allow Unsafe
  # Should safe console allow unsafe consoles in the listed environments
  # Default: false
  conf.allow_unsafe = true

  # Current Environment
  # What is the current runtime environment?
  # Useful if Rails.env is `production` in staging like environments
  # Default: Rails.env
  conf.current_env = ENV["CURRENT_ENVIRONEMNT"]

  # Command Timeout
  # Should someone be removed from a console session with X duration of inactivity
  # Default: nil
  conf.command_timeout = 10.minutes

  # Session Timeout
  # What's the maximum duration someone should be allowed to run a console session?
  # Default: nil
  conf.session_timeout = 30.minutes
end

Regarding Command and Session Timeouts

Both timeout configurations can be used together, independently, or not at all. Safeconsole spins up a background thread to monitor current session duration, to prevent hanging console sessions.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

There is a slimmed down Rails application in spec/rails_app, where you can run bin/rails safeconsole to see it in a rails app

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/aaronmiler/safeconsole. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Safeconsole project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.